Back to the small fishing village in 1982

Ye Yaodong never fell asleep because he was thinking about the basking shark that was stranded on the shore. He lay half asleep after exercising.

After squinting for a while, he saw the bright sky outside the window and heard the sound of the old lady opening the door outside the house. He also climbed up lightly.

The old lady was very surprised when she saw him getting up.

"You didn't go to sea at night? Was there a storm? I asked why I heard the sound of the door opening again later in the night. I thought it was Ah Qing who got up to check whether the doors and windows were locked."

"My dad and I had something to do, so we turned back halfway."

"Then why don't you sleep a little longer? It's just dawn now, it's only 04:30..."

"I'm going to go out for a walk later, you go about your business."

He took the washbasin, towel, tooth cup and went to the back door, washed briefly and then walked out.

"It's early in the morning, when the genius is just shining. Where are you going? There's no one on the road. Are you going to the workshop? You're in such a hurry..."

The old lady stood at the door looking at his back and thinking to herself, but after he walked out of the yard, she also went to the yard and let out the chickens and ducks in the cages, and then went to the back door to let out the geese.

By the way, she chopped up the small fish and shrimps she brought back yesterday and fed them to the poultry. After a lot of work, she started to light a fire to cook porridge. While cooking, she also swept the yard and the door. , the vegetable field was watered again.

Even though she got up early, by the time she finished her work, it was already 6 o'clock, and most of the neighbors were also up.

Otherwise, how can we say that having an elder in the family is like having a treasure?

With the old lady here, Lin Xiuqing also saves a lot of things. She only needs to wash clothes and take care of the children every day when she wakes up. The old lady does most of the things easily without her having to do any work, and there is also ready-made breakfast.

After Ye Yaodong went out, he went in to take a look when he passed the workshop. This time, the boys were sleeping in the house honestly and did not play cards outside until dawn.

He didn't know what time he was busy last night and what time the aunts left. He looked at the fishing nets spread all over the yard and walked along the left walkway. At a glance, he saw that they were all flat and flat without overlap.

There is also a strong smell of fish in the air, which is stronger than the smell when standing on the beach.

The old aunts have been killing fish for a lifetime, and their knife skills are extremely good and sharp. Most people can kill more fish in eight lifetimes than others can kill in eight months. With one knife, they spread it out on both sides. It is fast, accurate and beautiful. It can be called Humanoid machine.

At a glance, Ye Yaodong saw that every fish was cut beautifully, and he was extremely satisfied. After seeing it, he did not disturb Wang Guangliang and the others from sleeping. He went out and locked the courtyard door, and then walked out of the pier.

There were not many people there early in the morning, but all those who were supposed to go out to sea were gone at night. If anyone came out again, they would have to wait a little longer.

Those along the coast wait until dawn and after breakfast before going out to collect and release the nets.

So when he came out of the pier, it was still empty outside. There were not so many people gathering around to watch the excitement like at night.

He continued along the shore. At this time, the tide was ebbing. There were two high tides and two low tides every day.

I looked at my watch and saw that it was only 5 o'clock, and the tide had just receded for a while. If it had reached the bottom, it would probably be 7 o'clock, and then it would remain at low tide for an hour or two before it would slowly rise again, and then it would rise again at noon. high tide.

As he walked, he searched on the sea surface and found the huge body of the basking shark on the edge of the reef not far away.

Now that the tide is out, it is particularly conspicuous on the sea surface. Most of the body is exposed on the sea surface, leaving only the underwater part under the abdomen.

Ye Yaodong walked as far outside as possible, and carefully continued down the rocks. The rocks on the side were covered with many barnacles, and there were also many green sea greens, which were easy to slip. When he came out in the morning Without thinking much, I came out wearing a pair of slippers.

Standing on the reef on the horizontal surface, he could clearly see the basking shark's mouth open, still sucking in as much sea water as possible, and the fish's tail also swung from time to time, spraying water on its body, probably to keep itself as moist as possible.

He felt it was its instinctive desire to survive.

Fortunately, there is no sun in the early morning, so it will not be burned. When the sun is really high in the sky, the tide will rise. By then, the exposed parts of its body can be soaked in the sea, and it will not have to be like now. Keep swinging your fish tail to survive.

"It seems quite pitiful..."

After Ye Yaodong sighed for a moment, he took a closer look at his body. He actually saw that there were two holes on the side of his body, but the hole was blocked, leaving only a long and narrow hole. The tail swings behind its head.

He squinted his eyes and took a closer look. He felt that the wagging tail was the lamprey, and its head should have already penetrated the hole to suck the flesh and blood of the basking shark.

After thinking about it, he rolled up his trousers to his thighs and let the water drip down.

But at this time, someone on the shore stopped him. It was a middle-aged woman who lived nearby.

"Oh my god, who is that big guy? A Dong? What are you doing?"

Ye Yaodong turned around and explained briefly, "Auntie, do you have bucket gloves at home? Lend them to me."

"Oh, okay, okay, just wait a moment..."

Ye Yaodong stood there waiting for her. Without gloves and a bucket, it was difficult for him to catch her, and it was difficult to release her once she caught him. He would throw it back into the sea and be afraid of swimming back.

The woman ran home and ran over again soon, but she was not the only one who ran back, there were also several other men and women who lived near the shore.

The people on the shore were pointing at the sea and talking, but the middle-aged woman brought him a bucket and gloves, and asked a few questions about what they were and what he was going to do.
"That's a basking shark. Didn't a large group of them appear near the coast yesterday afternoon? Many people saw it on the sea, but this one was stranded. I went down to take a look."

"You are not afraid……"

"It's stranded and can't move. What's there to be afraid of? I saw wounds on its body and fish burrowing into its wounds. I'll go take a look."

Ye Yaodong took off his watch and put it in his pocket, put on his gloves and carried the bucket and continued forward. The woman behind him stretched out her neck and muttered, "I have never seen such a big fish in my life, with its mouth so wide." This guy, his tail is still moving there, and he actually dares to get close..."

He waded in the water until the water was up to his thighs, and he also walked up to the basking shark. The exposed wounds on its body were whitened by the sea water, and the white and tender fish flesh was turned over and exposed.

In the wounds above the water surface, because they were not soaked in sea water, there were no haggies. However, some of the fish flesh was white and exposed, and some had a few shallow holes.

It is estimated that the fish changed places after feeding for a while. It must have been because the tide was low and the body was exposed. It was afraid that there would be no sea water, so it only dug into the meat hole under the water surface.

Ye Yaodong saw it from the side. There were about four or five meat holes filled up under the water. The tail was shaking outside and the head was sucking inside the hole.

He grabbed a tail and felt a particularly thick mucus sensation. The seawater next to it was also a little sticky from the mucus it exuded, making it look like a small ball of snot.

I pulled hard and found that the suction on the top of my head was quite strong, so it was not easy to pull it out.

He had no choice but to place the bucket held in his other hand on the water and block it with his knees to prevent the bucket from floating away. He waited until both hands were free before pulling it together.

Only then was a slender lamprey, about thirty to forty centimeters long, pulled out of the flesh hole, its head still twisting and shaking from side to side.

And the people on the shore were also stunned.

Regardless of the light, everyone could clearly see that he suddenly pulled a long eel-like fish out of the big guy's body, which shocked everyone.A man shouted to him on the shore, but he didn't hear what he was saying clearly.

After a while, two men came down from the shore. Around him, they were extremely curious.

Ye Yaodong didn't have anything he couldn't say. He told them that these lampreys were eating the basking shark, so he pulled the disgusting fish out of the basking shark's body.

Only then did everyone understand what he was doing. They looked at the eel called the lamprey in the same room and found that it was indeed disgusting.

"So if these different eels are pulled out of its body, will this big shark survive?"

"I don't know. I don't know how far I have eaten. If my internal organs are empty, I will definitely not survive."

But he felt that it shouldn't be that fast. After all, this basking shark is very large, and most creatures will protect their abdomen better. If it didn't get in through the belly, it shouldn't be empty so quickly, right?After all, it's only been one night.

"Did you find it when you came out this morning?"

"No, when everyone went out to sea at night, they found it on the shore. However, everyone was in a hurry to go out to catch fish and had no time to waste time because of this big fish. I was more curious, so I didn't go out to sea. Everyone said that the next day When the time comes, ask the village cadres to handle it.”

Ye Yaodong said as he went to grab the second one.

The two men who came down also tried to catch it together. He also reminded them to pay attention to the head of the lamprey and not to be bitten.

The three of them worked hard for a while, working from one side to the other. It took more than half an hour to dig out all the holes that could be seen.

There were also half a bucket of lampreys in the bucket, and there were eleven or two of them. The head full of sharp teeth looked very dense in the bucket, and it looked a bit scary.

"Are they all caught?"

"These other kinds of eels in that bucket are so disgusting, what are you doing with them?"

"What about this big shark?"

"This body is so big, it should weigh several tons, right?"

Ye Yaodong shrugged, "Ask the village committee. Many people saw it together. Let's see what the village committee says."

He carried the bucket to them, and then turned over the basking shark's belly to look for any wounds on its abdomen.

As a result, the basking shark's tail directly touched his back, sliding down from top to touch twice, startling him so much that he almost jumped into the water.

He turned around and saw that its tail was swaying happily in the water now, unlike before when it was weakly lifting water on its body. It probably felt more comfortable and there were no bugs sucking its blood.

Ye Yaodong slapped his chest fiercely, "I was so scared that I thought I was going to be slapped to death by my tail."

"Haha, it feels like it is a little more relaxed, and it drinks more water into its mouth."

"I feel the same way, the tail is wagging more frequently."

"It must have come back to life, right? The fins of the fish are also moving. I'll call someone from the village committee to come over and take a look later."

"Do you want to go ashore?"

"How about you go up first and I'll look through it later?"

"Then let's flip through it and look for it? I don't know why it got stranded..."

The three of them continued to fumble under the water, flipping it out as much as possible from where its belly was close to the beach, and checked them all, but they took out two more just above the tail.

These two were drilled very far inside, leaving only a hole of about 5 cm. I didn't see the tail at the opening, so I almost ignored it.

"It's really cunning. Fortunately, I have a sharp eye."

"This big shark seems to be quite docile and doesn't move around..."

"Is it possible that it's stranded and can't move even if it wants to?"

"Hehe, this is actually..."

"It's probably gone. I don't know if there's anything under the belly. We've already dug through everything we should, so we just crawled into its mouth to look for it. We can't even dig out the rest, so that's it. Come on up, you're even hungry. I’m starving to death, I haven’t eaten anything, and my feet are almost wrinkled.”

"Okay, then go up."

Ye Yaodong stretched and twisted his neck, then followed the two of them and walked to the shore.

Several people on the shore couldn't wait to ask questions, and they all stretched their heads to look into the bucket to see what they had just caught.

"Is this fish edible?"

"This thing looks so disgusting. The head looks like our butthole."

This aunt is good at describing it. Except for the fine teeth on it, it looks quite similar. Ye Yaodong laughed out loud, "You said it's so disgusting, do you still want to eat it?"

"Forget it, it's not like I haven't eaten anything."

"Then... what to do with that big shark? How to get it?"

"We told you to leave it to the village committee, so let's not think about it."

"Then you just ran down to catch this weird eel?"

"Aren't you curious? Seeing Adong grabbing there, we followed suit."

"Then go tell the village committee..."

"What about this bucket of fish?"

After they talked a lot, they looked at Ye Yaodong again.

"I'll bring it home to my mother. When she goes to the village committee later, I'll go with her and say, you just watch here, don't let other people see it, just go up and kill him with a knife. "

"That's fine too."

He didn't know whether the basking shark would die or live next, or what the village committee planned. Anyway, seeing that they followed them all the way, and for the sake of making them so majestic, he did what he should do, and then he resigned himself to fate. , see if its life is tough or not.